Sentences with phrase «which side of the science»

Is Plimer the climate version of Harvey Dent (aka Two Face from Batman), flipping a coin to decide which side of the science to present?

Russ R firmly established which side of the science / pseudoscience divide he is on by brushing them aside with an inane comment.

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There is no area in social science in which the evidence stacks up so completely on one side: marriage and traditional family life are associated with good outcomes in terms of health, wealth, and other indicators of well - being.

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

Strangely enough, those groups which denied the importance of the material side of life, including Christian Science, appealed largely to people who were richly blessed with the world's goods.

Vague impressions of something indefinable have no place in the rationalistic system, which on its positive side is surely a splendid intellectual tendency, for not only are all our philosophies fruits of it, but physical science (amongst other good things) is its result.

I hope he will be good - humored enough to realize that such a chapter as I have just written is not meant to be an attack upon science but an attack upon that one - sided obsession with the material and the tangible which leads to the loss of spiritual apprehension.

Side by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering thingsSide by side with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering thingsside with the growth of science, which is also the basis of the material prosperity and unification of the world, has come a steady deepening of human sympathy, and the extension of it to all weak and suffering things....

My purpose, and I presume that of all others who have approached the subject from the scientific side, has been to find a metaphysics which, with the minimum of speculation, finds a place for the obviously primary reality of the stream of consciousness, while fully accepting the findings of science.

Many religious people love science... when it's on their side of the argument, but demonize it whenever it is not, which seems to be more and more often these days.

In British thought there has been a strong empiricist tradition, going back to Bacon, Hume, and Mill, which has emphasized the observational side of science.

After five years of watching bad science, defensiveness from both sides, and extremist advocacy rather than balance, I've written an article which is an appeal for nuance on the issue of low carbohydrate diets.

According to the Buffalo Police Department's Twitter account, the man was shot just after 4:30 p.m. on the 200 block of Timon Street, which is on the East Side near the Buffalo Museum of Science.

Importantly, the burden for these cuts would have been entirely carried by the nondefense side of the budget, which houses the National Science Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and all other science agencies outside the defenseScience Foundation (NSF), NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and all other science agencies outside the defensescience agencies outside the defense realm.

Keeping with the Oscars theme, if the previously - posted World Science Festival video was a bit too long for a Sunday evening, Vi Hart has a short and sweet video of a (one - sided) Möbius strip on which she has rigged to play a musical theme from Harry Potter.

The highly interactive «Beyond Rubik's Cube» exhibit, which opens April 26 at the Liberty Science Center in Jersey City, N.J., celebrates every side, ahem, of the cube in a multimedia love letter to the enduring puzzle.

Unfortunately, there is justice on both sides — which is probably why this has become one of the longest running debates in science.

Legislators on both sides of the aisle in the U.S. House of Representatives say they love science, which is seen as engine for innovation and economic growth.

In its statement, IWC points out its reviews and reports «have been widely debated and referenced by parties on all sides of the [scientific whaling] debate including the 2014 ruling of the International Court of Justice,» which found that Japan's whaling program was not about science.

We launched a new effort on the diagnostic side, called the research domain criteria, or RDOC, which has awakened the field to the need to bring biology — and for that matter cognitive science and social science — into the process of diagnosis.

In response, Holdren said, scientists are already an interest group, one that happens to be devoted to its interest in scientific inquiry; science is already politicized because federal funding decisions governing research programs take place in a political arena in which Congress, the executive branch and stakeholders from all sides play leading roles; and, finally, scientists are most worried about the results of their work being lost, not their jobs.

Collaboration in the field of materials science resembles a two - sided coin in which the positive side is the mutually beneficial relationship between all collaborators in multidisciplinary groups.

This one - sided incentive was already criticized in the comprehensive climate protection report for agriculture and forestry conducted in 2016, to which employees of the Chair of Wood Science also contributed.

Although no formal agreement was reached, the two sides agreed that NASA would contribute a piece of hardware such as detectors or reaction wheels — which help turn a space observatory in a desired direction — and, in turn, gain a seat on Euclid's 12 - member science team.

Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high - tech businesses.

«I find that the fundamental gut - level commitment to science is very strong, regardless of which side of the aisle you're on,» he says.

Lab tests by Liangbing Hu at the University of Maryland and his team showed that nanowood's capacity to block heat penetrating from one side to the other is on a par with that of styrofoam, which is hundreds of times better at blocking heat than epoxy or glass (Science Advances, doi.org/cmbq).

The team's computer simulations indicate that the planet's orbit isn't face - on, which constrains its mass to one to 2.7 times that of Earth, implying that it has a terrestrial composition but its tidally locked day side should be hot enough to melt lead (Ken Croswell, Science Magazine, March 11, 2015).

Instead, follow the science of vice virtue bundles, which says the optimal eating formula for keeping calories in check and circumventing binge triggers is pairing a quarter of a serve of your favourite food — pork crackle included — with three quarters of less energy - dense sides.

Trans fats are dangerous at any level for one of many examples, which is found solely in animal fats (and thanks to the dark side of science, they've been able to emulate these fats by hydrogenating vegetable oils).

That is not to say that he is purposely misleading people but he has picked his side and is unwilling to report all of the facts and science which directly contradict what he chooses to report on.

Interspersed with these are green - tinted installments of a science - fiction side - story inspired by Flash Gordon (one iteration of which includes an apparent Star Wars parody — the Flash Gordon serials were among Ruiz's childhood favorites); a Columbo - inspired detective story set at a country manor; a black - and - white romantic costume drama; a touch of musical comedy; and a Western - style shootout inside the movie theater.

The first extra included is «Modified Organism: The Science Behind Morgan», which runs about 20 minutes and dives into the scientific side of the films concepts.

This is perhaps the most dense science fiction psychobabble this side of L. Ron Hubbard's Battlefield Earth saga, which I myself have read and seen the awful resulting film with John Travolta.

I don't want to send everyone to four years of ed school, nor do I think the science model applies to education as well it does to medicine, but I do think that in education it is the problem - solving side which is underdeveloped and the accountability side which is overdeveloped.

This week features some more Civilization VI talk, as well as discussion of a new side - scrolling RPG Gunmetal Arcadia Zero, which is available for a few days at a «pay whatever you want» price; basically, it's a science fiction Zelda II.

Recent exhibitions include: Possible Side Effects, Arróniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City, MX (2015); Redacted: connecting dots in a shifting field, curated by Janet Goleas, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY (2014); Art = Text = Art at UB Anderson Gallery, University at Buffalo, NY (2014) which travelled from the University of Richmond Museum, VA, the Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, NJ, and The Hafnarfjör ∂ ur Centre of Culture and Fine Art, Iceland (2013); Contemporary Monochromes, Contemporary Galleries, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013); Science is FICTION, Bartha Contemporary, London (2013), Terrible Beauty: Art, Crisis, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Ireland (2011); Wünsche und Erwerbungen, Zeitgenössische Zeichnung, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (2010); ALL OVER THE MAP, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI (2009); BLOWN AWAY, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, IL (2008); Uncoordinated: Mapping Cartography in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH (2008); Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite (traveling to 7 University Museums)(2008 - 2009).

Often drawing from popular science - fiction imagery and narrative, Atherton challenges the ambiguous separation between the natural and the fantastic, creating a theater through which to experience the grotesque side of nature.

The response of a rational person considering the evidence from both sides (which is a necessity for level 3 science) is to weigh evidence from both sides and make both sides aware of arguments from the other side and emphasize the need for refuting arguments from the other side in justify your thesis.

It added that «the site has a policy of not getting dragged into the political or economic aspects of science, but it's fairly easy to guess which side it's on.»

Andrew Revkin Boy, Michael, if my writing and blogging has allowed even one person (you) to step out of the fog of competing messages and obfuscated science in the climate arena, I feel it's been worth the hassles (and all that «scorching» you refer to, which has come from folks on all sides of this issue at one point or another).

I suspect if you bother to answer that most of you would cite the science which seems to support your «side».

On the physics side, the core science of fusion is plasma physics, which is highly complex due to its non-linear and stochastic processes.

Here's an interview from May by a reporter for the news side of the journal Science in which Venter, the entrepreneurial scientist at the heart of the work, explains what he's up to:

I am not going to stand up and support every point made in those references, firstly because I don't, secondly because I am not qualified and finally because the whole point of my initial post was to demonstrate that the side which claims to be on the side of the «science», is demonstrably uncritical of anything which supports their view.

We must develop a new strategy for creating and rapidly translating knowledge into action, which will form part of a new contract between science and society, with commitments from both sides.

That's an argument than even deeply non-technical non-scientists of the general public (and Congress / Senate) can understand - part of their «figuring out who knows what about science» mental toolkit that Dan so admires - which is probably why climate science communicators on the sceptic side are so keen to communicate it.

Note how he just comes right out and admits what everyone already suspects to be the case: that his slurring of climate science as «junk science» is rooted in nothing more scientific than his understanding of which side his bread — and Cody's — is buttered on.

This is the Q&A between Senator Ed Markey (D - MA), Judith Curry (Prof Atmospheric Science, GA Inst Tech), and Mark Steyn (arts reviewer and conservative activist)... Senator Ed Markey has been briefed by activists, doesn't listen to the testimony, and so not only does not understand the other side of either the science or policy debates (which differ), he does not know there is an other side (he just sees Science, GA Inst Tech), and Mark Steyn (arts reviewer and conservative activist)... Senator Ed Markey has been briefed by activists, doesn't listen to the testimony, and so not only does not understand the other side of either the science or policy debates (which differ), he does not know there is an other side (he just sees science or policy debates (which differ), he does not know there is an other side (he just sees error).

Apart from the fundamental scientific advances of the breakthrough papers, there is an hierarchy of classes of lesser papers, along the lines of those which — • Confirm or deny the main thrust of a breakthrough paper by arriving from other angles • Provide an alternative or improvement to the main findings of breakthrough papers • Contribute more observation to the breakthrough paper and discuss its relevance • Seek to set a complementary base for a breakthrough in a related aspect of science • Report the views of a clutch of authors about a topic they deem to have political importance • Ditto for educational importance • Write papers that are knowingly lacking good science to place authors in one camp or another • Lambast an author or authors for being on the «wrong» side of a polarised topic • Perform meta analysis Etc..